Portrait of a peregrine falcon ... Images of Wilfred Thesiger

Portrait of a peregrine falcon ... Images of Wilfred ThesigerPortrait of a peregrine falcon (shahin) with its prey, a MacQueen's Bustard (houbara), in the sands surrounding Al Ain. In the foreground a peregrine falcon, which belongs to Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan's hunting party, plucks at a dead MacQueen's Bustard lying on the ground. Around it feathers lie on the sandy ground. Due to the nature of these images, prints will reproduce any signs of age, wear or damage that occurred before they were

cultivated by local Bani Yas villagers

He wears a light coloured waistcoat over his thobe (long shirt) and an embroidered headscarf tied over a white taqiyah cap

a young tribesman of the Bayt Imani lineage of Rashid Bedouin

pouring water into a water skin

its body facing towards the near left and its head facing back towards the right

with several women standing outside

from the near right into the left background

riding his camel along a dune crest

A crowd of onlookers watch the photographer

and feathers in his hair

posing above the Wadi 'Aydim

Portrait of two boys of the Mahra Bedouin at Habarut [Habrut] wells